Faculty Spotlight

Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey

Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences

A major focus of the D'Souza-Schorey lab is to define how altered regulation of signaling pathways that govern cell motility contribute to cancer initiation and progression. The ultimate goal is to utilize this information for the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Siyuan Zhang

Nancy Dee Assistant Professor of Cancer Research

Reginald Hill

Archibald Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology

The Hill lab uses novel mouse models, human clinical samples, and newly-established assay systems to elucidate how the microenvironment or inflammation contributes to all three stages of tumorigenesis: initiation, progression, and therapeutic resistance.

Coleman Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology

Michael Ferdig

Professor of Biological Sciences

The Ferdig lab is using methods to overlay critical biological processes on whole-genome data to bridge the gap between critical phenotypes, like drug resistance and virulence, and their underlying gene mutations, with the long-range goal of elucidating new avenues of malaria intervention.

Jennifer Tank

Galla Professor of Biological Sciences

Beth Archie

Clare Boothe Luce Program Assistant Professor of Biology

Research in the Archie lab combines four areas—behavioral ecology, disease ecology, population genetics, and conservation biology—to understand the evolution of animal social behavior and its genetic and disease-related causes and consequences.